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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
I've never been able to let go of a phrase in some history documentary I watched a long time ago. They said some area of land had been controlled by so-and-so for a really long time "with the exception of a brief 200-year rebellion."
WE are a "brief" 200-year rebellion.
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*chuckles*
That's one way of looking at it.
What I always find interesting is the way something can be a fundamental of our existence - a ubiquitous understanding of the world or ourselves - and seem like it must always have been so - and then you realise it's a recent development. It's always a little disconcerting.
'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' L.P. Hartley,
The Go-Between